Preserving Families Podcast

Mark and Janie talk about one on one parenting, and use the teachings of Alma to help illustrate important parenting strategies.

Mark interviews Janie about the importance of extended family in our children’s lives, and they brainstorm together ideas to get your extendedfamily together, like cousins camp and more!

Mark sits down with his friend Dr. John Hatch to discuss how to teach our children to resist temptation and want to choose the right.

Janie and Mark talk about how in a society of decreasing civility, we can be beacons of light and hope by teaching civility in the home.

Janie and Mark chat about how to keep the sabbath and the impact keeping the sabbath day has had on their families and personal lives.

Mark and Janie discuss the power of faithful fathers and men in the church, and how that led Mark to convert to the church at 18.

Mark and Janie talk about the duty that parents have to teach their children the commandments of God and show them his love.

Mark and Janie chat about ways to make the summer a fun and rejuvenating time for your family.

Mark and Janie talk about the church’s unwavering stance on chastity and the blessing that the law of chastity is to youth and families everywhere.

Mark and Janie address the tough topic of faithful parents who must grapple with the children who have strayed from the church and give tools to instill hope and optimism in those relationships.

Mark talks with Janie about the positive impact religion has in marriages, and touch on how their religion has personally blessed their marriage and family.

Mark talks about how our mindset is everything, and that what we focus on determines our happiness in life.

Janie returns, and talks with Mark about the principles of connection, regulation, and autonomy in raising children.

Mark talks about ways to strengthen our marriages and what the prophets have said on the topic.

Mark and Janie chat about what it means to preside, provide, protect and nurture in the family proclamation, and how to apply those principles to our families today.

Mark and Janie talk about how to elevate our families general conference experience, and ways we can get the most out of the messages shared there.

Mark and Janie discuss how to use agency to teach our children, and how that prepares them for the natural consequences of adult life.

Mark and Janie talk about ways to make Easter as special as Christmas, and how to help our families celebrate Easter to the fullest.